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Cortana is an A.I. assistant developed by Microsoft. It was originally developed for Windows Phones and has since been expanded across most of Microsoft's platforms, including Windows 10 and the Xbox One.

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Since Windows 10's inception Cortana has been directly integrated into the search bar. The idea was that it would make it easier for people to find answers in one place, whether through text search or voice queries. But now it seems the company has decided the tools are better off ...

Amazon and Microsoft hope you'll help them teach Cortana and Alexa to play nicely together. Starting today you can sign up for a preview that'll let you run the virtual assistants on each others' respective devices.
Announced last fall, the collaboration is finally here in limited ...

At today's Build show, Microsoft finally showed off what it would look like if Cortana and Alexa would sound like if they worked together.
Microsoft and Amazon have been teasing the team-up since last August, when they announced their agreement to get their voice assistants to ...

Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana are teaming up. The companies today announced integration between the two services, allowing you to access Cortana's features from Alexa, and vice versa.
As it stands, voice assistants are walled gardens, with too many options to choose from. ...

Following up its promise from December, Microsoft has opened up the Cortana Skills Kit preview for developers. That will open up Microsoft's AI to numerous new custom abilities.
To make it easier for to get started, Microsoft says developers can simply reuse the a lot of the ...

We first got wind of a Cortana-powered speaker was on the way back in December, but now it's finally here. Microsoft and Harmon Kardon today revealed the 'Invoke,' the first Amazon Echo competitor to use the Windows' voice assistant.
It sure looks a lot like the Echo, if a bit ...